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Series 6 (1968–1969)

Cast: All episodes feature Patrick Macnee (as John Steed) and Linda Thorson (as Tara King). In episode 17, ("Killer") Tara makes a brief appearance before going on holiday. For the remainder of "Killer", Patrick Macnee as John Steed is paired with Jennifer Croxton as Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney.

In episode 1 ("The Forget-Me-Knot"), Diana Rigg as Emma Peel makes her final appearance.
Patrick Newell (as "Mother") features in twenty of the episodes, with his mute sidekick "Rhonda" (Rhonda Parker) joining him for the latter eighteen.

The episode numbers in the table relate to the order in which they were first broadcast by Thames Television in the UK. Different ITV regions broadcast episodes on different dates and in different orders, so the Thames order does not match the order of first UK broadcast. Nearly all episodes in this series were shown, in a different order, in the US before they were shown in the UK.

Ep Title Directed by Written by Guest cast First UK broadcast

01 - "The Forget-Me-Knot" - James Hill, Brian Clemens,Patrick Kavanagh, Jeremy Burnham, Jeremy Young, Alan Lake, Douglas Sheldon, John Lee, Leon Lissek - 25 September 1968

A new drug that causes instant amnesia makes his fellow agents forget Steed. Diana Rigg bows out as Mrs Emma Peel and her replacement, Miss Tara King, is introduced (the two women pass each other on the stairs, and Peel advises King about how to prepare Steed's tea) together with Steed's new boss: a plump, jovial man, codenamed 'Mother' (who, in a spoof of the US television series "Ironside", runs the department from his wheelchair).

02 - "Game" - Robert Fuest - Richard Harris, Peter Jeffrey, Garfield Morgan, Anthony Newlands, Alex Scott, Aubrey Richards, Brian Badcoe - 2 October 1968

An ex-soldier, thought to be dead, takes his revenge on Steed and five other former Army officers, who helped to court-martial him, by trapping them into participating in a series of deadly games that invariably end in death.

03 - "Super Secret Cypher Snatch" - John Hough - Tony Williamson, John Carlisle, Simon Oates, Allan Cuthbertson, Ivor Dean, Angela Scoular, Nicholas Smith, David Quilter, Clifford Earl, Donald Gee, Alec Ross, Lionel Wheeler - 9 October 1968

An espionage ring is stealing secrets from the Government's top secret Cypher HQ, by posing as window cleaners. MI-12 is assigned to the case. When its man Jarett is murdered, Steed takes over, to investigate Classy Glass Cleaning; but Tara, posing as a new secretary inside Cypher HQ, swears no one has penetrated its security.

04 - "You'll Catch Your Death" - Paul Dickson - Jeremy Burnham, Ronald Culver, Valentine Dyall, Fulton Mackay, Sylvia Kay, Dudley Sutton, Charles Lloyd-Pack, Henry McGee, Hamilton Dyce, Bruno Barnabe, Geoffrey Chater, Willoughby Gray - 16 October 1968

Empty envelopes are delivered to top Government officials, who are then found dead. The only clue is that each man seems to have died from a fit of sneezing. Steed investigates a clinic for researching the common cold, which seems to have purchased some unusual stationery supplies.

05 - "Split!" - Roy Ward Baker - Brian Clemens, Nigel Davenport, Julian Glover, Bernard Archard, Iain Anders, Christopher Benjamin, Steven Scott, Maurice Good - 23 October 1968

When agents in Lord Barnes's department at the Ministry of Top Secret Information are murdered, all the evidence points to an enemy agent named Kartovski. The snag is that Kartovski was killed by Steed five years earlier.

06 - "Whoever Shot George Oblique Stroke XR40?" - Cyril Frankel - Tony Williamson, Dennis Price, Clifford Evans, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Nicholls, Frank Windsor, Adrian Ropes, Arthur Cox, Tony Wright, Valerie Leon - 17 October 1968

A mystery enemy is targeting Britain's most important government computer with a series of sabotage attempts. Steed investigates the machine's designer, following up a clue the computer has provided, and plants Tara in his household as a spy.

07 - "False Witness" - Charles Crichton - Jeremy Burnham, John Bennett, Barry Warren, Tony Steedman, Simon Lack, Arthur Pentelow, Jimmy Gardner, Rio Fanning - 6 November 1968

When all the witnesses involved in the prosecution of Lord Edgefield, suspected of blackmailing key security and foreign service personnel, suddenly start lying – including Tara – Steed must discover how they have been got at. Meanwhile, Tara becomes suspicious of DreemyKreem Dairies, but discovers she is literally incapable of telling anyone.

08 - "All Done with Mirrors" - Ray Austin, Leigh Vance - Dinsdale Landen, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Michael Trubshawe, Nora Nicholson, Tenniel Evans, Michael Nightingale, Robert Sidaway, Edina Ronay (uncredited),[140] David Grey, Graham Ashley, Peter Thomas - 13 November 1968

Secrets are leaking from a defence research establishment, thanks to a new invention: an eavesdropping device, which can use any shiny surface to reflect and amplify sound waves. But with Steed unavailable, Tara must investigate with only an inexperienced new agent for support.

09 - "Legacy of Death" - Don Chaffey - Terry Nation, Stratford Johns, Ronald Lacey, Richard Hurndall, John Hollis, Tutte Lemkow, Michael Bilton - 20 November 1968

Thames 4 November 1968. For revenge on Steed, an old enemy leaves him a deadly legacy in his Will: a jewelled oriental dagger worth a million dollars, known as the Falcon, which various dangerous men are anxious to acquire. Steed is cast in the role of Sam Spade, in a spoof of the Humphrey Bogart movie "The Maltese Falcon", with dead bodies piling up in his apartment as one man after another tries to kill him to get hold of the item. Ronald Lacey guest stars as Mr Green, and Stratford Johns as Mr Street, in a homage to Bogart's co-star, Sydney Greenstreet.

10 - "Noon Doomsday" - Peter Sykes - Terry Nation, T. P. McKenna, Ray Brooks, Griffith Jones, Lyndon Brook, Peter Bromilow, Patrick Newell, Peter Halliday, Anthony Ainley, John Glyn-Jones - 27 November 1968

An injured Steed is being treated in a top secret hospital, with an assassin named Kafka, the former head of Murder International, on his trail. With the aid of an accomplice on the inside, Kafka penetrates the security guarding the hospital, and Tara finds herself in a race against time to save the helpless Steed.

11 - "Look - (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) — But There Were These Two Fellers..." James Hill, Dennis Spooner, Jimmy Jewel, Julian Chagrin, Bernard Cribbins, John Cleese, William Kendall, John Woodvine, Garry Marsh, Bill Shine, Richard Young, Robert James, Talfryn Thomas - 4 December 1968

Two old-time music hall performers dressed as clowns (one played by real-life music hall star Jimmy Jewel), with assistance from a group of ex-vaudeville acts, are killing the businessmen they blame for closing down the variety theatres which were their livelihood.

12 - "Have Guns - Will Haggle" - Ray Austin - Donald James, Johnny Sekka, Nicola Pagett, Roy Stewart, Timothy Bateson, Michael Turner, Jonathan Burn - 11 December 1968

Steed attends an underworld auction and bids for three thousand stolen state-of-the art rifles to try to prevent them falling into the wrong hands.

13 - "They Keep Killing Steed" - Robert Fuest - Brian Clemens, Ian Ogilvy, Ray McAnally, Norman Jones, Bernard Horsfall, Angharad Rees, Reg Whitehead - 18 December 1968

Enemy agents disguised as Steed penetrate a peace conference for which he is in charge of security, to assassinate the delegates. With Steed also present, trying to stop them, chaos arrives because no one can tell the real Steed from the imposters. As Tara investigates, she finds herself falling over dead Steeds wherever she goes!

14 - "The Interrogators" - Charles Crichton - Richard Harris, Brian Clemens, Christopher Lee, Philip Bond, Glynn Edwards, Neil McCarthy, Cardew Robinson, Neil Wilson - 1 January 1969 - Thames 20 January 1969

Agents in Steed's department are being fooled into giving away secrets, by men posing as Army officers at a fake Government training establishment. And their next victim will be... Tara King.

15 - "The Rotters" - Robert Fuest - Dave Freeman, Gerald Sim, Jerome Willis, Eric Barker, John Nettleton, Frank Middlemass, Harold Innocent, Amy Dalby, John Stone, Charles Morgan, Noel Davis - 8 January 1969

Steed investigates a firm named WormDoom, whose proprietor, a businessman widely thought a bit of a rotter, is killing off his business competitors, all experts on timber decay. To get at his victims he has stolen a new chemical that, while simulating dry rot, causes wood to rot instantaneously: turning doors, walls and windows all to powder.

16 - "Invasion of the Earthmen" - Don Sharp - Terry Nation, William Lucas, Christian Roberts, Lucy Fleming, Wendy Allnutt, Chris Chittell, Warren Clarke, George Roubicek - 15 January 1969

Steed and Tara investigate an unusual school: a military academy for young men and women, that hides a secret astronaut training centre.

17 - "Killer" - Cliff Owen - Tony Williamson, Jennifer Croxton, Grant Taylor, William Franklyn, Richard Wattis, Harry Towb, John Bailey, Michael Ward, James Bree, Anthony Valentine, Clive Graham, Oliver MacGreevy, Michael McStay - 22 January 1969

While Tara is on leave, Steed takes on a temporary new partner, the aristocratic Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney. Together they confront REMAK: the Remote Electro Matic Agent Killer – a computerised assassin.

18 - "The Morning After" - John Hough - Brian Clemens, Peter Barkworth, Joss Ackland, Brian Blessed, Donald Douglas - 10 January 1969

A double-agent, codenamed Merlin, steals a new sleep gas and tries it out on Steed. Awaking 24 hours later, with Merlin his prisoner, Steed can find no one to hand him over to: everywhere he goes the streets are completely deserted.

19 - "The Curious Case of the Countless Clues" - Don Sharp - Philip Levene, Anthony Bate, Kenneth Cope, Tony Selby, Peter Jones, Tracy Reed, Edward de Souza, George A. Cooper, Reginald Jessup - 31 January 1969

In a spoof of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Doyle (Peter Jones) – equipped with pipe, cape and deerstalker hat – is investigating a seemingly careless criminal, who leaves masses of clues wherever he goes. But no-one can solve the crimes, not even Steed, because all the clues are fakes: left behind by a blackmailer, who is planting them to incriminate wealthy men, as part of a sophisticated extortion racket.

20 - "Wish You Were Here" - Don Chaffey - Tony Williamson, Liam Redmond, Robert Urquhart, Brook Williams, Dudley Foster, Derek Newark, Gary Watson, Louise Pajo, Richard Caldicot, David Garth - 7 February 1969

In a spoof of the 1967 British TV series "The Prisoner", Tara finds herself trapped in a posh prison without bars or guards, which, on the surface, appears to be merely an elegant hotel in a quiet English town.

21 - "Love All" - Peter Sykes - Jeremy Burnham, Terence Alexander, Patsy Rowlands, Brian Oulton, Frank Gatliff, Peter Stephens, Larry Taylor, David Baron 14 February 1969

Steed investigates a publishing house which specialises in romantic fiction, when looking into a mystery in which top civil servants are unexpectedly falling in love and betraying military secrets in 'pillow talk'.

22 - "Stay Tuned" - Don Chaffey - Tony Williamson, Gary Bond, Kate O'Mara, Duncan Lamont, Howard Marion-Crawford, Roger Delgado, Harold Kasket, Ewan Roberts - 21 February 1969

Steed returns from holiday with no memory of where he has been or what he has been doing for the past three weeks. He is behaving oddly and seems to have been brainwashed—implanted with a post-hypnotic suggestion to kill someone in the department.

23 - "Take Me to Your Leader" - Robert Fuest - Terry Nation, Patrick Barr, John Ronane, Michael Robbins, Penelope Keith, Hugh Cross, Michael Hawkins, Bryan Kendrick, Raymond Adamson, Henry Stamper - 28 February 1969

Steed and Tara are tracking the movements of a red attaché case containing money and documents intended for a top enemy agent. The case also contains taped messages that inform a series of couriers where to take it.

24 - "Fog" - John Hough - Jeremy Burnham, Nigel Green, Guy Rolfe, Terence Brady, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Norman Chappell, Patsy Smart, John Garrie, Frederick Peisley, Arnold Diamond, John Barrard - 7 March 1969

The Gaslight Ghoul, a Victorian mass murderer similar to Jack the Ripper, strikes again a century later. In a fog-shrouded London, the Ghoul is intent on assassinating all the foreign delegates attending the international disarmament conference. Steed invents a fictitious additional Gaslight Ghoul murder in order to investigate a gentlemen's club, dedicated to uncovering the identity of the Ghoul, which Steed suspects is involved in the new killings.

25 - "Who Was That Man I Saw You With?" - Don Chaffey - Jeremy Burnham, William Marlowe, Ralph Michael, Alan MacNaughtan, Alan Wheatley, Bryan Marshall, Alan Browning, Aimée Delamain, Ken Barker - 14 March 1969

Whilst on a top-secret security assignment, Tara comes under suspicion of being a double agent. She must cast similar suspicion on Steed if she is to prove that she has been framed. An enemy agent, Gregor Zaroff, hopes to put the Government's new anti-missile defence system, codenamed 'Field Marshall', out of action by convincing Steed and Mother that Tara has betrayed the system's secrets.

26 - "Homicide and Old Lace" - John Hough - Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks, Joyce Carey, Mary Merrall, Gerald Harper, Keith Baxter, Edward Brayshaw, Bryan Mosley, Donald Pickering, Gertan Klauber, Kevork Malikyan, Kristopher Kum, Stephen Hubay - 21 March 1969

Mother's two elderly aunties are all a-twitter over an improbable tale that he spins them: a dastardly plot to steal the Crown Jewels, illustrated with clips from earlier episodes.

27 - "Thi - ngumajig" - Leslie Norman - Terry Nation, Jeremy Lloyd, Iain Cuthbertson, Willoughby Goddard, Hugh Manning, John Horsley, Edward Burnham, Vernon Dobtcheff, Russell Waters - 28 March 1969

A fiendish, and lethal, device that eats electricity, designed as the ultimate killing machine, gets loose in a rural English village and electrocutes everyone it comes into contact with.

28 - "My Wildest Dream" - Robert Fuest - Philip Levene, Peter Vaughan, Derek Godfrey, Edward Fox, Susan Travers, Philip Madoc, Tom Kempinski, John Savident, Hugh Moxey - 4 April 1969

Acme Precision Combine's directors are dying. A series of quite ordinary men have been hypnotised into committing the murders - by making them believe it's all a dream.

29 - "Requiem" - Don Chaffey - Brian Clemens, Angela Douglas, John Cairney, John Paul, Denis Shaw, Katya Wyeth, John Baker - 11 April 1969

Tara finds herself attending a Requiem service for Mother, when Steed inaugurates a one-man witness protection program for a key witness against Murder International: taking the witness to Fort Steed, a hiding place supposedly known only to him. But agents bent on murdering the witness boobytrap Steed's apartment. When the bomb explodes, Tara is severely injured and Mother is killed. Now Tara must find Steed in time to warn him.

30 - "Take-Over" - Robert Fuest - Terry Nation, Tom Adams, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gwynn, Hilary Pritchard, Garfield Morgan, Keith Buckley, John Comer, Anthony Sagar - 18 April 1969

Steed is spending the weekend with two of his oldest friends, Bill and Laura Bassett, who, unknown to him, are being held prisoner in their own home by the other house guests. If they reveal this to Steed, or the reason why, he will be murdered: but he nevertheless begins to suspect something is amiss. Then an unsuspecting Tara blunders in.

31 - "Pandora" - Robert Fuest - Brian Clemens, Julian Glover, James Cossins, Kathleen Byron, John Laurie, GeoffreyWhitehead, Peter Madden, Reginald Barratt - 4 April 1969

Tara is kidnapped by two brothers, who drug her and seek to brainwash her into believing that she is Pandora, a young woman she closely resembles, who was once engaged to their elderly father—a retired spy, codenamed the "Fierce Rabbit". He had been a British agent in the First World War, and Tara has to be convinced that she is now living in the year 1915.

32 - "Get-a-Way!" - Don Sharp - Philip Levene, Andrew Keir, Peter Bowles, Peter Bayliss, Terence Longdon, Michael Culver, Michael Elwyn, Robert Russell, William Wilde - 27 December 1968

Three captured Russian spies, one of whom is assigned to assassinate Steed, escape from a seemingly escape-proof prison hidden in Oldhill Monastery. Steed investigates a suspicious consignment of vodka recently delivered there, while Tara finds a clue in a magazine article about camouflage.

33 - "Bizarre" - Leslie Norman - Brian Clemens, Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay, George Innes, John Sharp, Sheila Burrell, Michael Balfour, Patrick Connor, Ron Pember - 17 May 1969

When a man who was buried a year previously is found newly dead, Steed investigates the cemetery where the dead man was supposed to be. One exhumation leads to another, as more and more discrepancies are uncovered. Steed then has himself buried alive—to see what transpires.